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Date:      Sat, 17 Jan 1998 20:24:53 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/5481: boot blocks too big with BOOT_HD_BIAS defined
Message-ID:  <199801180324.UAA28976@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199801180258.NAA12564@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
References:  <199801180258.NAA12564@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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> >>  You will have to worry soon when BOOT_HD_BIAS is removed :-).
> >
> >So, where is the example boot.config for -stable that we can use to
> >build our custom setup?  I don't even know what the format of this (now
> 
> `man boot'.

That's pretty weak documentation.  I think an example verbose
'boot.config' file would be more appropriate.

> >required) file, and README.serial doesn't explain it well enough to know
> >how to setup a system so that BOOT_HD_BIAS is not required.
> 
> README.serial is for serial consoles so you shouldn't expect it to explain
> boot or drive configuration.

No, but IMHO neither does the boot(8) manpage. :(



Nate



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